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“It was fun chatting to all the teams today and I wish them well for next year’s event in Singapore”

Former Formula 1® World Champion Kimi Räikkönen and Singapore students discussed how modern-day track to road innovations like Shell V-Power Nitro+ and Shell Helix Ultra help to deliver power, performance and efficiency for the everyday consumer, and how bright energy ideas are powering future mobility at a special media event ahead of this weekend’s grand prix. Read the rest of this entry »

Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes is focused on learning from its mistakes at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix but feels any struggles could be used as an added weapon in the F1 world title battle. Read the rest of this entry »

“Singapore is one of my favourite races, It’s so tough on everyone – physically and mentally – and I love that challenge.”

Nico Rosberg is set to go on ‘maximum attack’ for the remainder of the Formula 1 season as he looks to claw back his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s 53-point advantage Read the rest of this entry »

The crisis of collapsing and complaining teams looks set to once again spoil plans for F1’s stock market floatation

The sport’s majority shareholder CVC wanted to float formula one in Singapore in 2012, but the plans were delayed amid market uncertainty and Bernie Ecclestone’s high profile legal troubles. Read the rest of this entry »

Dominant Mercedes is unapologetic amid increasing pressure to agree to an engine ‘unfreeze’ for 2015.

The new constructors’ champions came under fire recently when Red Bull’s Christian Horner claimed Mercedes went back on an earlier pledge to agree to relax the sport’s tight restrictions on in-season engine development. Read the rest of this entry »

Rivals are piling pressure on Mercedes to agree to “unfreeze” engine development in formula one.

The German marque has utterly dominated the sport this year as the all-new turbo V6 era dawned. So rivals, powered by struggling Ferrari and Renault, have argued that the strict limits on in-season development of the ‘power units’ should be relaxed. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda has apparently hit back at rumours its 2015 F1 programme is facing delays.

Italy’s Autosprint reported on Tuesday that, despite making an audacious bid to lure Fernando Alonso to McLaren for 2015, the Japanese manufacturer is three months behind in the development of its all-new turbo V6 ‘power unit’. Read the rest of this entry »

That is the view of retired grand prix veteran David Coulthard, following reports the sport’s governing FIA is concerned the challenge of driving an F1 car today is ‘too easy’. Read the rest of this entry »

Mercedes has revealed the cause of former championship leader Nico Rosberg’s steering wheel failure in Singapore.

The team said it carried out a “forensic analysis” of the problem after the recent night race and found that the steering column electronics had been “contaminated with a foreign substance”. Read the rest of this entry »